Menlo Park police

Members of the Menlo Park community are invited to roll up their sleeves and join their local police and fire fighters in helping to ensure hospitals and patients have the lifesaving blood they need. Menlo Park firefighters and law enforcement personnel are teaming up with the American Red Cross for their first-ever Battle of the Badges blood drive to see who can recruit the most eligible donors in the community to give blood.

Battle of the Badges is a friendly competition that helps the Red Cross meet patient and hospital demand for blood. “Battle of the Badges” T-shirts provided for all donors by American Red Cross.

Individuals can join the Battle of the Badges blood drive by donating though January 4, 2018. Appointments are encouraged but are not required. To make an appointment to donate, call 1-800-RED-CROSS or visit redcrossblood.org, sponsor code BADGENORCAL.

InMenlo contributing photographer Robb Most headed to Fremont Park in downtown Menlo Park today to capture some of the action at the emergency response training drill hosted by the City of Menlo Park, the Menlo Park Fire Department, the Menlo Park Police Department, and CERT (Community Emergency Response Team). The objective of the drill was to prepare […]

The City of Menlo Park is partnering with MED-Project to offer a free, safe and convenient location for residents to dispose of unwanted or expired medication. A Med-Project secured kiosk is now located in the main lobby of the Menlo Park Police Department at 701 Laurel Street. Drop-offs can be made in the lobby during regular […]

On 03/28/2016, shortly before 4:00 pm, the Menlo Park Police Department and the Menlo Park Fire District responded to the area of University Avenue, east of Adams Drive on the report of a brush fire which involved a homeless encampment. The fire, once extinguished, was later determined by investigators of the Menlo Park Fire District […]

This morning (3/22/15) at approximately 5:08 am, police received a call from a night shift employee of a business on the 700 block of Menlo Avenue, reporting that a vehicle had just backed through the rear glass door of Mike’s Camera located at 715 Santa Cruz Avenue. The caller reported that two subjects were attempting to […]

Bryan Roberts will become Menlo Park’s Police Chief on September 7, pending a background check and other requirements for public safety officers, according to Menlo Park City Manager Glen Rojas, who made the announcement today. Roberts is currently a Commander for the City of Citrus Heights, where he has worked since 2006. The City initiated […]

Rolling stops at neighborhood stop sign intersections are common here in Menlo, enforced usually by stealth Menlo Park motorcycle cops. Such was the case early this morning on the corner of Lemon and Oak. A motorcycle officer had positioned himself just out of view of traffic traveling west on Oak. His first offender was not […]

A Menlo Park Police Department motor officer tickets one of two motorists pulled over on Oak Ave. between Bay Laurel and Oak Knoll Lane at about 2:45 P.M. today. Two motor officers were seen busily policing the intersection of Oak Grove and El Camino this morning at about 9:30 A.M.. Our correspondants are reporting a […]